Becoming With Precious: The Journey of Personal Growth And Reinvention

What do you do when your public life is built on giving people spiritual answers, but your private reality is unraveling so violently that you find yourself planning your own suicide on a random Wednesday afternoon?

Jason Lyle knows exactly what happens when your theology outpaces your biology. For thirteen years, he stood at a pulpit as a pastor, offering hope and clarity to his congregation while secretly disintegrating under the weight of adoption trauma and severe sexual addiction. When his double life inevitably collapsed in 2017, he lost his career, his standing, and nearly his own life. Sitting on the edge of suicide, a desperate phone call introduced him to the profound reality of nervous system regulation, revealing that his destructive behaviors were not a lack of faith, but a brain entirely hijacked by a primitive fight-or-flight response.

Instead of doubling down on the religious willpower that had failed him for over a decade, Jason made the audacious choice to heal his body first. Through extreme cold exposure and breathwork, he learned to force his rational mind back online in the middle of sheer panic. In this deeply vulnerable conversation, Jason breaks down why white-knuckling your way out of addiction is a guaranteed recipe for failure, how he navigated the brutal ego death of losing his pastoral identity, and what it actually takes to cultivate the sacred grit necessary to stop suppressing your demons and start regulating them.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• Willpower is a biological trap: Trying to muscle through trauma or addiction fails because the body is actively trying to soothe itself in a state of fight-or-flight; you have to regulate the nervous system before the rational brain can regain control.

• Suppressing emotions breeds infection: Pushing down anger, fear, or shame only amplifies their power, whereas learning to sit safely in discomfort allows you to process those feelings without letting them destroy your life.

• Deconstruction is a pathway to true embodiment: Letting go of a rigid, purely intellectual belief system is often the necessary ego death required to experience genuine, embodied peace and self-forgiveness.

• Cold water forces spiritual surrender: Subjecting yourself to extreme cold deliberately triggers your amygdala, giving you a daily, controlled environment to practice moving from sheer panic back to rational calm.

Connect with Jason Lyle

Website:https://thesacredgrit.com/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576917194889

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What do you do when a devastating car accident, a house fire, and deeply personal betrayals wipe your slate clean time and time again?

Dr. Michael Wright has rebuilt his life from the ashes more times than most can fathom. Raised in poverty as a high school dropout, he faced staggering odds to make something of his future. His journey was far from linear. After a severe car accident and a week-long coma derailed his original career plans, followed by a devastating house fire, a divorce, and abandonment by his closest friends, Michael was forced to continually reinvent himself. Instead of letting these traumas define him, he used them as the ultimate foundation for resilience, eventually creating an entirely new field in organizational compliance and earning dual doctorates.

Today, Michael is stepping away from the operational consulting empire he built to focus on the raw, human side of leadership. In this episode, he uncovers the audacity required to leave a restrictive hometown, the grit needed to shut down a profitable business in pursuit of true alignment, and the reality of coexisting with the painful versions of your past. This is a conversation about surviving the deep end of adversity and choosing to inspire rather than dictate.

• Trauma as an early warning system: You do not have to erase the painful versions of your past. Let them coexist as guides that help you spot behavioral patterns, rather than forces that dictate your future.

• The fishbowl effect: You will only grow to the size your environment allows. Sometimes the most audacious move you can make is leaving everything behind to create a space where you can actually scale.

• True alignment requires sacrifice: Building a thriving business is an achievement but having the grit to scale it back or shut it down when it no longer serves your core purpose is a massive demonstration of self-awareness.

• Leaders inspire, bosses dictate: Mandating culture from a place of authority breeds compliance but leading through raw integrity and grace cultivates a fiercely loyal and ambitious team.

Connect with Dr. Michael Wright on https://www.drmwright.com/

How do you break a 30 year cycle of binge eating and food obsession when the coping mechanism you relied on since childhood is the very thing you must face every single day to survive?

For three decades, Ronni Robinson lived in the hidden trenches of food obsession, using binge eating to fill the void of emotional neglect she experienced as a nine year old girl. Growing up in a dysfunctional family, food became her accessible substitute for love and safety. It was a silent, exhausting cycle of hiding, shame, and broken promises to do better tomorrow. But instead of surrendering to a life controlled by cravings and toxic diet culture, Ronni made the audacious choice to face the painful roots of her trauma through intense therapy.

Today, with 18 years of solid recovery behind her, Ronni has completely rewritten her reality. She transitioned from suffering in secret to crossing the finish lines of three Ironman triathlons, ultimately realizing that food is fuel, not a moral failing. In this deeply human conversation, she exposes the toxic lies of diet culture, explains the raw reality of childhood wounds, and shares exactly how she built the grit to stop running from her past and start helping others recover with absolute freedom.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• Diet culture falsely assigns moral value to food and our bodies, keeping us trapped in an inauthentic cycle of shame and restriction.

• Addictive behaviors like binge eating often stem from childhood emotional neglect, where food becomes an easy substitute for love and security.

• True recovery requires the grit to honestly confront and process childhood trauma, accepting that while it was not your fault, healing is now your adult responsibility.

• Physical endurance challenges can radically shift your perspective, teaching you to view food as vital fuel for your body rather than a tool for emotional coping.

Connect with Ronni Robinson

Website:https://www.ronnirobinson.com/coaching-info

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronni-robinson-8080b119/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0MsnxuCdZdVgZKsvK9TEA

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ronni.f.robinson/

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How do you shift your mindset when you find yourself sitting in a virtual bankruptcy court for the third time at 51 years old?In this episode of Becoming with Precious, AmyNicole Ellis gets incredibly real about surviving three major bankruptcies and the deep connection between emotional codependency and financial collapse. She shares how people-pleasing and trying to prove her worth led her to rack up debt after devastating breakups, and how she eventually learned to stop seeing these moments as personal failures and start viewing them simply as past data.

Amy also breaks down the concept of Human Design, explaining how understanding your unique energetic blueprint can help you stop forcing career paths or relationships that drain you. By recognizing her own patterns, she transformed her life from feeling lost and burnt out to living with purpose and lightness.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Financial collapses often correlate with emotional breakups and the urge to prove yourself.

• Treat your setbacks like a meteorologist treats past weather patterns: they are just data to help you forecast a better future.

• Human Design uses your birth date, time, and location to reveal your energetic blueprint so you stop forcing paths that do not light you up.

• You only miss the window to reinvent yourself if you are six feet under; any day above ground is an opportunity to start over

Connect with AmyNicole Ellis:

http://amynicoleellis.substack.com/

Chapters

00:00 The Journey of Becoming

01:18 From Struggle to Transformation

02:23 Reframing Financial Failures

05:30 Emotional Patterns and Financial Health

08:10 Understanding Human Design

12:34 Breaking the Cycle of Burnout

15:49 It's Never Too Late to Restart

16:39 Connecting with Amy Nicole

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Are you giving away the rights and revenue to your own story just because you think you need a publisher's permission to share it?In this episode of Becoming with Precious, Michele DeFilippo pulls back the curtain on the publishing industry after spending over 50 years navigating its massive shifts. She challenges the outdated narrative that creatives need a traditional publisher to validate their work, exposing how modern middleman publishers often charge authors upfront while still taking the lion's share of backend sales.

In this episode, you will discover:

• The original promise of self-publishing was that the author keeps all the revenue, but middleman publishers have hijacked that model.

• Treating your book like a business means investing in professional editing and design so buyers get a quality product.

• Releasing a poorly produced book to save money will ultimately kill your publishing enterprise through bad reviews.

Website: https://1106design.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-defilippo-824247/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQQSYNLxoSQDokF7cDiJ27Q

X: https://twitter.com/1106design

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Chapters

00:00 The Journey of Ownership in Publishing

01:27 The Evolution of Self-Publishing

03:15 Overcoming Mental Barriers in Publishing

05:09 The Importance of Professional Quality

06:33 Financial Control and Author Empowerment

08:56 Mindset Shift: From Hobbyist to CEO

11:18 Resources for Aspiring Authors

What happens when you finally realize that the endless, exhausting cycle of trying to fix yourself is the exact trap keeping you stuck in the darkest orbit of your own mind?

Richard Smith spent years feeling locked inside his own head, paralyzed by the chaotic, defensive, and repetitive patterns of human behavior. Society teaches us that when we hit absolute rock bottom or find ourselves repeating the same destructive cycles, it means we are fundamentally broken. Richard challenges this exhausting narrative by offering a radical pivot. He discovered that our darkest, most suffocated states are not permanent life sentences, but simply lower orbits of consciousness. His audacious realization was that you cannot out-think a defensive mind; you have to literally feel your way out of it through raw, physical presence.

In this conversation, Richard unpacks his groundbreaking Orbits of Consciousness framework, giving listeners the exact tools to map their internal chaos without heavy judgment. He explains why our biggest leaps forward are almost always followed by brutal regressions, and how to use the raw grit of human connection and daily awe to pull yourself out of the abyss. This is a masterclass in internal surrender, proving that finding your agency is not about forcing a breakthrough, but having the courage to gently shift your orbit when the walls start closing in.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• You cannot think your way out of emotional paralysis; true agency requires grounding yourself in raw physical sensation to literally feel your way back to the present.

• Regression is a mandatory part of the comeback journey; falling backward after a massive breakthrough does not mean you are starting from zero.

• The human nervous system operates like a tuning fork; the internal orbit you choose to occupy will inevitably synchronize with and alter the people around you.

• Escaping the trap of feeling broken starts with the audacious act of seeking out moments of awe to reconnect with the sheer scale of the universe.

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Connect with Richard Smith on https://aphenomenallife.co.uk/

What happens when you trade a safe career in banking to lead a professional ice hockey franchise in one of the most male-dominated industries in the world, and then decide to go alcohol-free just to sharpen your edge?

Toni Will did not follow a traditional career ladder. Instead, she took a massive, audacious leap from retail banking into the rugged world of professional ice hockey, eventually becoming the first woman in history to serve on the ECHL executive committee. As the General Manager of the Kalamazoo Wings, Toni routinely shatters the status quo. Whether she is orchestrating Guinness World Records, introducing rainbow ice to a historically homogenous sport, or surviving the daily exhaustion of unconscious bias in the boardroom, she leads with an unapologetic, rebellious edge.

But her greatest pivot did not happen on the ice. Five years ago, Toni made the raw and highly calculated choice to stop drinking, not because she hit rock bottom, but because she demanded a higher level of personal performance. In this episode, she breaks down the grit required to complete two Ironman triathlons, how physical suffering translates to executive resilience, and exactly what it takes to stop shrinking to fit into spaces where you were meant to spread your wings.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• You do not need a catastrophic failure to change your habits. Eliminating a crutch, like alcohol, can be an aggressive strategy to elevate your performance and clarity.

• When faced with brutal business negotiations or boardroom doubts, anchor yourself to the hardest physical or mental challenge you have previously conquered.

• When navigating a male-dominated or restrictive environment, the answer is not to make yourself smaller, but to spread your feathers and force the room to expand.

• The ultimate leadership hack is checking your ego at the door and directly asking for help from those who are even slightly ahead of you in the game.

Connect with Toni Will

Website:https://www.toniwill.com/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonildaniels/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@ToniWill

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/tonilentini

Instagram:https://instagram.com/imtoniwill

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What do you do when the Western medical system labels your profound spiritual awakening as a psychosis, and the only path to healing requires leaving Hollywood behind to answer a terrifying ancestral calling in South Africa?Dayle McLeod was living in Los Angeles, pursuing a career as an actor while silently suffocating inside a controlling, isolated marriage. As she slowly gave away her power, an intense Kundalini awakening and vivid hallucinations of her African ancestors shattered her reality. The Western medical system quickly pathologized her experience, placing her in a psychiatric ward for psychosis. Instead of accepting a lifelong diagnosis, Dayle made the audacious choice to listen to the shamans who recognized her crisis as a profound ancestral calling. Leaving her marriage and the extractive machinery of Hollywood behind, she set out to reclaim her indigenous roots and true creative power.

Documenting her grueling rites of passage entirely on an iPhone, Dayle traveled to South Africa to become an initiated Sangoma, a traditional healer. Her documentary, Day of My Death, captures the raw, painful, and deeply beautiful journey of decolonization and spiritual rebirth. In this episode, Dayle breaks down the violent transition from a marginalized victim of ancestral trauma to a powerful conduit for healing. She shares how alchemizing her pain not only transformed her own life but also sent ripples of healing backward to her ancestors and forward to her entire family lineage, proving that true liberation requires absolute surrender to the unseen.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• Mental health crises are sometimes misunderstood spiritual initiations; alchemizing that pain requires seeking out mentors who recognize the soul's profound calling.

• True creative power cannot be offloaded to gatekeepers or oppressive partners; it is reclaimed by doing the gritty, terrifying work of decolonizing your mind and connecting with your roots.

• Documenting your own darkest moments can serve as a radical act of self-witnessing, allowing you to view your own story with a loving, objective gaze.

• Healing is never just an individual process; when you boldly step into your purpose, the ripple effects liberate both the ancestors who suffered before you and the generations that will follow.

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Connect with Dayle McLeod on https://daylemcleod.com/

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What if the calling you felt at nine years old took a lifetime of grit, a pioneering career in fetal medicine, and forty years of interior design before you finally had the audacity to answer it?Growing up in a household where the default answer was always a resounding no, Shirley Novack learned early on to use rejection as absolute fuel. Instead of folding to the limitations placed on women of her generation, she talked her way into a pioneering surgical research team operating on the unborn in the 1960s, ran an interior design firm for over four decades, and refused to let anyone tell her what she could not achieve. But it was a prophecy from her fourth-grade teacher that lingered in the background, waiting for the right moment to surface.

When the pandemic hit, Shirley finally sat down to write, unearthing the profoundly traumatic and deeply inspiring story of her immigrant father. Navigating the messy and sometimes predatory world of book publishing later in life, she proved that age is merely an excuse for those unwilling to try. Today, with multiple successful novels to her name, Shirley shares her unvarnished journey of turning dark family history into historical fiction and why stripping the words shouldn't, couldn't, and wouldn't from your vocabulary is the ultimate act of defiance.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:

• Spite as a stepping stone: When surrounded by negativity and limitation, use the doubt of others as the exact fuel needed to prove them wrong and forge your own path.

• The only real failure is inaction: Striking out on a new venture is never a waste; looking back with regret because you were too paralyzed to attempt it is the ultimate tragedy.

• Emotional entanglement is the price of creation: To write a story that resonates, you must have the grit to deeply inhabit the trauma, pain, and reality of the characters you are bringing to life.

• Age is an irrelevant metric: Pivoting into a brand new, highly competitive career is entirely possible at any stage of life if you possess raw enthusiasm and a refusal to settle.

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Connect with Shirley Novack on http://linkedin.com/in/shirley-novack-

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How do you find the raw grit to publish your darkest childhood trauma for the world to see, and then summon that exact same audacity to fight for your life when your physical body starts betraying you?SR Fabrico spent 25 years thriving in the high-energy world of sports coaching before a deeply personal Christmas gift completely altered the trajectory of her life. What started as a private manuscript thanking her husband for helping her survive severe childhood trauma evolved into her debut novel. Pushing past the terrifying vulnerability of sharing her darkest moments, she forged an entirely new career as an award-winning author of psychological thrillers. But just as her writing took off, her physical health violently derailed.

For two years, Stacy endured agonizing pain, the terrifying loss of her balance, and a misdiagnosis of a stroke before finally discovering she had Multiple Sclerosis. Instead of letting this devastating news put a period on her story, she used it as a comma. In this episode, she unpacks the raw reality of having to relearn how to walk, the audacity required to advocate for yourself in broken medical systems, and the grit it takes to publish your pain. Her story is a profound reminder that even when your body breaks down, you still hold the pen to write your next chapter.

In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover

• Publish your pain: Sometimes the most terrifyingly vulnerable thing you can do is exactly what sets you free and helps others heal.

• Advocate with audacity: When your body is failing and the medical answers do not make sense, you must have the grit to challenge the experts until you get the truth.

• Redefine your bad days: A chronic illness forces you to completely shift your perspective. Finding gratitude in the simple act of walking can turn a physically painful day into an emotional triumph.

• Just finish the draft: Whether you are rebuilding your life or writing a book, the first draft of your comeback will be messy. Give yourself the grace to put the words on the page and fix them later.

Connect with SR Fabrico

Website:https://www.srfabrico.com/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacyfabricorowe/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@srfabricoauthor

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/srfabricoauthor

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/srfabrico_author/

TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@srfabrico_author

X:https://x.com/StacyRowe1

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